UK-Blade, many thanks for kind words
Meph, that could be a good idea , you also notice that I've placed after the modeling phase of the bottom main bridge for a particular reason: the "Eternal Crusader" is not a simple battlebarge (it's an ancient battleship after all) so I think it needs more geometry to represent the influences of imperial architecture on its original design.
So, answering to Kenetor, I'm thinking about the opportunity to embed in it some parts of imperial vessels; mainly the prow and the central hull of an Retribution class battleship.
Excellent work Andrea :thumb: .... You've kept your CG version faithful to the design, though I can see where Meph is coming from,....
I know nothing about BFG so I've not been very helpful with feedback or constructive crits with regards to types of weapons these things have etc, ... but since you may be wanting to modify it a tad, ... I did a quick edit as a possible suggestion .... Go with your own instinct mate, you know more about these ships than I, ... but I know they're absolute monsters in terms of scale ...
In the pic below I did a simple edit, that I think works visually ...
Excellent work Andrea :thumb: .... You've kept your CG version faithful to the design, though I can see where Meph is coming from,....
I know nothing about BFG so I've not been very helpful with feedback or constructive crits with regards to types of weapons these things have etc, ... but since you may be wanting to modify it a tad, ... I did a quick edit as a possible suggestion .... Go with your own instinct mate, you know more about these ships than I, ... but I know they're absolute monsters in terms of scale ...
In the pic below I did a simple edit, that I think works visually ...
Jas
Really many thanks Jas, I have to say this is an excellent suggestion :cool:.
At this point I would want to work in parallel on this idea and on the Retribution class prow/hull as part of the bottom deck to have the sense of battleship growth over time in terms of expansion and restructuring.
Thanks for the comment Syklon
After Jas suggestion here is a couple of modification of the central hull (this is only a preview, no join geometry, details and so on in this moment)
Hmmm I'd go for neither. What I'd do is use the layout from nr 1, but use the smaller guns along the entire length of the extention and even pull out the section a bit so it's just as wide as the unmodified version. This was you create a sort of terrace in front of the windows which then you fill up with some Gothic open arches between the window sections.
Really many thanks to all of you for comments , your opinions are clear to me but I want to take more time for this part even cause there is a lot of work to do yet; in particular on the rear rudder and bottom deck.
Regarding bottom deck I want to restructure it inserting the first 2 Km of a Retribution class Imperial battleship; this and other possible modifications (besides the central hull) are shown below
I think one of the aspects I find most enjoyable about WH40K is that you can have a notation for one of your battleship models read "replace with early Gothic cathedral" and everyone nods their heads in sage agreement at the wisdom of this.
I think one of the aspects I find most enjoyable about WH40K is that you can have a notation for one of your battleship models read "replace with early Gothic cathedral" and everyone nods their heads in sage agreement at the wisdom of this.
Thanks for comment mates, and a little more patience for a full rendering from a low angle .
New central hull version with more docking/boarding bays and lance batteries
Hmmm, I'd really try experimenting with losing those large broadside guns altogether. Putting them next to the rescaled guns makes them look, well, rescaled... Perhaps reuse the bigger hull section but replace the big guns with the smaller ones and use the rest of the newly freed space to put some other detailing, perhaps large landing bay doors or something.
I agree with the point that the re-scale really does look like a rescale. If you want to have the bigger guns, you'll need to re-do them almost from scratch with a slightly modified design. You have slight variants on your docked Retribution Class that would look better blown up to a larger size - and then replace the ones on the retribution class with the smaller ones from the battle barge so that they're the same size and same style (i.e., as if the guns were standardized).
I don't think you're particularly in need of any extra hangers.
Well, I'll keep the current design and weapons arrangement; I've already restyled both central hull macrocannon designs (in particular, the bigger will be a sacred relic with battle-cry carved upon a templar cross, holy lantern barrel, and so on ... and both have the correct mechanical movements) so I can keep those of retribution on their original sites ... I'll post a wip rendering very soon and ... thanks for suggestions
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Meph, that could be a good idea , you also notice that I've placed after the modeling phase of the bottom main bridge for a particular reason: the "Eternal Crusader" is not a simple battlebarge (it's an ancient battleship after all) so I think it needs more geometry to represent the influences of imperial architecture on its original design.
So, answering to Kenetor, I'm thinking about the opportunity to embed in it some parts of imperial vessels; mainly the prow and the central hull of an Retribution class battleship.
I know nothing about BFG so I've not been very helpful with feedback or constructive crits with regards to types of weapons these things have etc, ... but since you may be wanting to modify it a tad, ... I did a quick edit as a possible suggestion .... Go with your own instinct mate, you know more about these ships than I, ... but I know they're absolute monsters in terms of scale ...
In the pic below I did a simple edit, that I think works visually ...
Jas
Really many thanks Jas, I have to say this is an excellent suggestion :cool:.
At this point I would want to work in parallel on this idea and on the Retribution class prow/hull as part of the bottom deck to have the sense of battleship growth over time in terms of expansion and restructuring.
After Jas suggestion here is a couple of modification of the central hull (this is only a preview, no join geometry, details and so on in this moment)
Regards Hawk.
But I think that another row of that guns would look too repeating ...
Maybe some giant space marine statues or stuff.
Regarding bottom deck I want to restructure it inserting the first 2 Km of a Retribution class Imperial battleship; this and other possible modifications (besides the central hull) are shown below
Yes mate, I've this thing planned and ... I forget to post some shots of the Imperial vessel basic geometry modeled up to now so ... here is
Great work as always.
Imperial vessel update
ROFL... well, if you put it that way...
TODO: towers restyling
can you you a full render from a low angle?
Kenetor
New central hull version with more docking/boarding bays and lance batteries
I don't think you're particularly in need of any extra hangers.
Think it might have an adverse affect on your poly count though